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1 Tremissis In the name of Zeno
| Issuer | Uncertain Germanic tribes |
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| Year | 476-491 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | D N ZENO - PERP D (Translation: Dominus Noster Zeno Perpetuus Augustus Our Lord, Zeno, perpetual August) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Zeno's second reign (476–491) coincided with the deposition of Romulus Augustulus and the formal end of the Western Empire, and Germanic chieftains across Italy and Gaul quickly grasped that striking in the Eastern emperor's name conferred a degree of legitimacy their own names could not. These imitative tremisses circulated as a political gesture as much as a monetary one. Attribution to a specific tribe remains contested — Odoacer's administration in Italy and various Visigothic moneyers in Gaul are both plausible candidates, and the RIC "cf." designation reflects exactly that unresolved question.